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ITV is to follow performers auditioning for leads in a West End show as part of a new series. The Big Audition
Spoiler alert: something happens just before the interval in Bruce Graham's White Guy on the Bus that twists it from a compelling
How did you start off in theatre? I went to York College, then East 15, but I only started musical theatre training
Meet our panel: We have given our panellists pen-names and used stock images but their biographies reflect their real career details… Albert
Eight years ago, my first job was playing the role of a Welsh Alicia Keys in the spoof music video, Newport (Ymerodraeth
The interesting thing about the now-imperilled partnership of Ant and Dec is that they sprang from a BBC children's television drama series,
It's surprising how people tend to be unaware of the enormous number of quick changes that lie behind big West End shows
A ballet's stage manager must be up for anything, from cueing the score to handling ponies. Johanna Adams-Farley and Sarah Woodward, who
It's all too much for one man to bear: the devastating loss of his wife in a domestic accident, the wordless sadness
As the film star prepares to put that famously husky voice to full use in the West End, she tells Matthew Hemley
Even at my advanced age I quite frequently look around a theatre audience and feel relatively young and spritely. Of course, there
The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich " Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Sophie Stanton plays the title role in Jo Davies' production, a refashioning of The
Andrew Lloyd Webber will become the first living composer to have musical-theatre songs performed live in space when he helps to launch
The question of whether forbidden love can survive the ravages of dementia places Matthew Trevannion's new play squarely at the centre of
Kenneth MacMillan's Manon skims across a lake of darkness before plunging into its depths. The Abbe Prevost's story of a girl whose
The lyricist of some of the best-loved musicals of all time would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. Music academic Dominic
Mark-Anthony Turnage's new opera Coraline represents a departure for its 57-year-old composer. Its source is a multi-award-winning children's novella by Neil Gaiman,
It is possible that you've heard of Michael Weller's play Buyer Beware. But unless you were among the roughly 85 people who
As Trump continues to band the term “fake news” at every media outlet except Fox News, we are more in need of
Edward Albee won his third Pulitzer prize for this 1991 play. Belatedly it now makes its Broadway debut a year and a
A London-based charity that uses performance to help young people who have left the care system has put forward proposals for new
Ian McKellen’s life and career is the subject of a new film that promises “unprecedented access” to archive material, including behind-the-scenes footage
It would be easy to sideline the Sherman brothers as sentimentalist songwriters from a bygone era. It's true that their best loved
Who'd have thought that Gilbert and Sullivan's baggy old warhorse could be reimagined for eight singers and a piano in a pub
Tim Crouch's new play for children and adults is set on the classic British summer holiday. The weather's damp and awful and
